R: Resources

# Other Resources

### FAQ

A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is maintained by Kurt Hornik and can be found at the URL

> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html

### Mailing lists

Thanks to Martin Maechler there are number of mailing lists which are used by R users and developers. They are

> r-announce@lists.r-project.org
>   announcements of new R releases or applications;
> r-help@lists.r-project.org
>   general inquiries and discussion about R;
> r-devel@lists.r-project.org
>   discussions about the future of R and pre-testing of new versions.

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing lists send `subscribe` (or `unsubscribe`) in the body of the message (not in the subject!) to

> r-announce-request@lists.r-project.org
> r-help-request@lists.r-project.org
> r-devel-request@lists.r-project.org

### Archives

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries. It is currently mirrored daily at

http://cran.au.r-project.org/
  PlanetMirror, Australia
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN/
  AARNet (accessible only from Australia and New Zealand)
http://cran.at.r-project.org/
  TU Wien, Austria
http://cran.br.r-project.org
  Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil
http://www.termix.ufv.br/CRAN/
  Federal University of Vicosa, Brasil
http://probability.ca/cran/
  University of Toronto, Canada
http://cran.dk.r-project.org/
  SunSITE, Denmark
http://cran.hu.r-project.org/
  Semmelweis University, Hungary
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/
  University of Aizu, Japan
http://cran.za.r-project.org/
  Rhodes University, South Africa
http://cran.ch.r-project.org/
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
http://cran.uk.r-project.org/
  University of Bristol, UK
http://cran.us.r-project.org/
  University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/
  University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN/
  Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
http://cran.get-software.com
  Get-Software.com, Augusta, ME, USA
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
  Statlib, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
http://cran.mirrors.pair.com/
  Pair Networks, PA, USA
http://www.binarycode.org/cran
  BinaryCode.org, Austin, TX, USA
http://mirrors.theonlinerecordstore.com/CRAN/
  The Online Record Store, Houston, TX, USA

Many of these sites can also be accessed using FTP. In the interests of preserving international bandwidth please use a site near you if possible.

The CRAN master site at TU Wien, Austria, can be found at the URLs

> http://cran.r-project.org/
> ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/

and is also available for anonymous rsync at `cran.r-project.org::CRAN`.

### Bug-tracking system

R has a bug-tracking system (or perhaps a bug-filing system is a more precise description) available on the net at

> http://bugs.r-project.org/

and via e-mail to r-bugs@r-project.org. The R function `bug.report()` can be used to invoke an editor from a within an R session and send the report to the right address. It also fills in some basic information, such as your R version and operating system, which has proved helpful in the debugging process.

The source distribution has a file `BUGS` at the top level giving a summary of the entries at the time this distribution was prepared.